cicely

See also: Cicely

English

Myrrhis odorata

Alternative forms

• cecily (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin seselis, from Ancient Greek σέσελις (séselis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsəli/
• Homophone: Sicily

Noun

cicely (usually uncountable, plural cicelies)

1. Myrrhis odorata, a plant in the genus Myrrhis, in the family Apiaceae.
2. sweetroot, any of several plants in the genus Osmorhiza.

Synonyms

• (Myrrhis odorata): sweet cicely, myrrh, garden myrrh, sweet chervil

Translations

Myrrhis odorata

• Arabic: probably no definite term
• Dutch: roomse kervel m
• Estonian: mesiputk
• Finnish: saksankirveli (fi)
• French: cerfeuil musqué (fr) m
• German: Süßdolde f
• Hungarian: spanyol turbolya
• Icelandic: spánarkerfill (is) m
• Norman: chèrfi doux m
• Polish: marchewnik m
• Russian: ке́рвель испа́нский m (kérvelʹ ispánskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: seanas m, cos-uisge f, mirr
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чѐхуља f

  Latin: čèhulja (sh) f

• Slovene: kromač m, dišeči kromač m, dívji jánež m
• Swedish: spansk körvel (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ке́рвель іспа́нський m (kérvelʹ ispánsʹkyj)
• Walloon: cierfouy di pidjon (wa) m
• Welsh: creithig bêr f

References

• cicely on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Myrrhis odorata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Myrrhis odorata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cicely (Myrrhis odorata L. Scop.)

Anagrams

• Cecily